Mapping XInput devices to /dev node

[Nicolas Trangez]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:41 +0930, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Nicolas Trangez wrote:
> > if I got a list of XDeviceInfo structures (which include a device ID),
> > is it somehow possible to figure out the device file
> > (/dev/input/eventX, /dev/input/mouseY, whatever) behind this device? 
> 
> Nope. Not even the server stores this information. It is only used by 
> the driver and while it can be stored in various private fields, there's 
> no client access to it.
So there's no way to get a somewhat more user-friendly name than
"Logitech Thuis-usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0" (where "Logitech Thuis" is
the name in my xorg.conf), unless I split on the first "-", which isn't
failure-proof. Bummer.

Nicolas
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